Have you ever experienced a Spiritual bond and / or connection with another person?

[Khadgar]

Before I get started I want be clear this thread has nothing to do with Religion, I'm aware Spirituality and Religion are closely related, but this topic only involves Spirituality, specifically Spiritual connections and bonds. So if you reply please don't make any references to Religion, Religious threads aren't allowed here.

Recently I became aware of the fact that I share a Spiritual bond and connection with one of my friends that I met 3 years ago, while I came to deeply care for her as a friend, there was so much more I was feeling and experiencing which only got stronger as the years passed and really peaked last winter, that I never felt or experienced with another person in my entire life.

Some of this included feeling magnetically drawn towards her and attracted to her way that went way beyond anything physical or mental that I could never describe. It's not like she was the most beautiful girl I had met or had the most amazing personality ether. There were also periods where she would frequently appear in my dreams and I never knew why.

I considered the possibly the reason I felt so strongly towards her was because I had developed a crush on her but I knew it wasn't that because they weren't romantic feelings, I didn't want to be in a relationship with her, plus there was so much more to it than this extreme level of attraction.

I was very confused and frustrated for a long time because I didn't understand any of this and didn't know how to tell her until now.

I was finally able to get to the bottom of it the other day after coming across webpages on Spiritual bonding and connections, something I've really never heard or knew of before (besides Soulmates), which basically described word for word what I was going through in relations to this person, during which I became very emotional the more and more I read.

I was never really a spiritual person but the overwhelming amount of evidence I've come across so far has me convinced.

I was also dealing with a lot of personal issues in my life during this time which I realize prevented us being as close as we could've been and prevented the bond from developing into something truly special which had caused me a great deal of pain.

There's other stuff too that I left out because I didn't want this to become a TL;DR

Below I've copy/pasted a few things that exactly describes everything I'm talking about and personally experienced.

As you may know there are different types of spiritual connections that can exist between two people,sometimes there can be multiple connections between two people as well really making the connection strong and unique.

The ways to tell you have a spiritual connection at all to someone are these signs as follows.

1) You can not describe the main reason as to why you are so attracted to the person in question.

2) Random thoughts of the person,even when they was not apart of your mindset at all initially.

3) Sudden change of mood. Example: One minute being carefree and happy to feeling sad. (This is because you can feel the mood of the other person you are connected too.

4) Feeling familiar with the person like you have known them for a long time when you don't know them very well.

5) Feeling a Indescribable feeling when you are both together in person,not knowing if it is good or bad.

How Will I Know?

You will ask, how do I know when my spirit has bonded with another person? You will feel or sense it, because you find this person easy to talk to, and you are comfortable when you are in their presence. Your face lights up with a smile when you see them, talking to each other becomes easy, you will discover that you have much in common and hold many of the same interests. The joining of two spirits is a beautiful thing because it means that two compatible souls have found each other and can now walk down the path of life together.

Sometimes we, through reasons of fault finding, refused to accept this bonding, because of minor human defects such as "he's not handsome" or "she's not pretty", and refused to allow the heart to guide us. Other times we may think we are unworthy of that other person's affection. Many times we have tried to hang on to or tried to salvage an old or bad relationship, but this sometimes may not work out. It could be because the other person may refuse to bond with you, or, karmically speaking, it may be time for it to end. Only when the spirits bond and "both" people accept this bonding can any relationship be a happy one.

As we are creatures endowed with the divine freedom of choice and free will, this can make spiritual bonding painful at times. The pain comes when one person recognizes the bonding and the other person, for one reason or another, does not. No matter how old or mature we are, we can never ease this pain. But there is hope! Through understanding and with time we learn to heal our emotional hurt, and we become a better person because of this experience. The only sad thing is that the other person may not have suffered the pain that you did, but they lost the great opportunity of having a happy life with you, and this is what is sad. On the other hand, if that other person did suffer pain, it was because they did care for you and did recognize the spiritual bonding, but for some reason could not allow this bonding to grow and blossom into something beautiful.

Aside from spiritual bonding, there are also apparently 5 different types of spiritual connections that I've been reading into which are Potential Soulmates, Twin Flames, Kindred Spirits, Past Lives Connection and final the connection is a Karma Connection

I'm not sure yet for sure which of these I may share with her for yet, but the two that are really sticking out to me are Twin Flames and Kindred Spirits, so much that I've read so far on these two really applies to my relationship with this person, especially the Twin Flames one.

I'd like to know if anyone else on here has experienced a Spiritual bond and / or connection with someone in there lifetimes, and/or feel free to comment on my personal experience.

[Reeve]

Sounds to me like you're asking if we've ever been in love and/or infatuated, and it seems like you're going out of your way to describe it as something other than love for some reason, perhaps to make it sound less mundane?

[Reeve]

This just sounds like being very close friends.

Very close friends where he's also infatuated.

[Reeve]

He said he doesn't want a relationship with them though. If not for that, sure, I'd have gone with love or infatuation.

Yeah, that part of the story sounds like horse manure to me. Self deception.

[Khadgar]

He said he doesn't want a relationship with them though. If not for that, sure, I'd have gone with love or infatuation.

I love her as a friend sure, but I'm not in love with her, my feelings aren't romantic, I have no desire to be in a relationship with her.

I'm 29 years old and the things I've experienced in relation to this person I never felt with another human in my entire life.

One of the things I've been reading on Twin Flames describes it perfectly.

"You feel an overwhelming sense of love and attraction. This love is genuine and heartfelt and you feel magnetically drawn to their energy. This is not to be confused with lust or an obsessive love. Twinflame love is unconditional and transcends the ego. If you have found your twinflame it does not mean that the relationship will necessarily be free from issues or personal conflict. There may still be lessons and healing that must take place between the twin souls. Twinflames are still human beings on the physical level."

[Auberdeen]

yes, and i dated her for 4 years, and then she came out of the closet, and we broke each others hearts and now we don't speak. and im confident i'll never connect with some one on the same level as i did with her. life is cruel, but at least she's happy, right?

[Khadgar]

Yeah, that part of the story sounds like horse manure to me. Self deception.

Everything I've mentioned in my post is 100% accurate, I have no reason to lie and I'm not trying to troll anyone.

[Reeve]

Everything I've mentioned in my post is 100% accurate, I have no reason to lie and I'm not trying to troll anyone.

I'm suggesting you're lying to yourself, not to us.

[Reeve]

Maybe, but it's entirely plausible. I certainly have friends like that where I care about them quite a bit and have no problem with intimacy existing between us, but my feelings are not actually of the romantic variety. I couldn't verbalize the difference, but it's very clear to me in how I experience my feelings that there is one.

I care about lots of friends quite a bit too, but I'm not attracted to them the way the OP describes. And when I have been, the feelings have strayed to the romantic. There were times in those friendships I tried to tell myself it wasn't romantic, but I was bullshitting myself. Telling myself that I wasn't romantically interested meant that I could

a) absolve myself of the need to do something about my romantic feelings
b) let me pretend to both myself and the girls involved that there was no weirdness on my end

But, as I worked out years later, it wasn't really true. I was lying to myself. I think a lot of men do the same thing, and it's not very healthy.

[melodramocracy]

I've sort of experienced this, but found it to be a rather unhealthy viewpoint in retrospect, enabled by other unrelated circumstances in my life at the time. None of it ended well.

[Celista]

Yes, I have! This stuff is very woo-woo, but I have experienced this sort of connection.

With one person I dated, I could tell when they were thinking about me and I could also tell when they were feeling particularly sad, happy, angry etc when I was not there.

Hasn't happened prior or since and I don't expect people to believe me so shrug.

I think we'll have a scientific explanation for such phenomena one day.

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Very close friends where he's also infatuated.

This is probably a good summary of the characteristics described in the OP, actually.

I don't actually believe in the concept of soulmates, although since my beliefs are rather odd I don't know if that matters much. I believe in the possibility of soul connections, and the possibility of something beyond ourselves that we do not fully understand quite yet.

[Powerogue]

That sounds like just having a bond with someone. That is, mundane as it may be, just chemicals. 3 may sound spiritual, but what's actually happening is either mood swings or empathy, depending on whether that person is visible to you or not.

[Reeve]

This is probably a good summary of the characteristics described in the OP, actually.

I don't actually believe in the concept of soulmates, although since my beliefs are rather odd I don't know if that matters much. I believe in the possibility of soul connections, and the possibility of something beyond ourselves that we do not fully understand quite yet.

I believe people can have instant and chemical level affinities or dissonances with other people which can be incredibly powerful. I've known people who loved me the moment they saw me, and I felt the same. I've also known people who I just rubbed the wrong way and they couldn't explain why, even to themselves. I rarely run into someone with whom our positive affinity is so great that it feels like the natural order of the world is standing on its head. It's happened to me a few times in my life, but it was always in a situation where the other person was unavailable, lived in a different city, or was already married, or was 19 years older than me (god, she was amazing), or something along those lines. And it isn't just that I'm attracted to unavailable women, because usually the feeling of affinity began before I knew about the issues.

My last girlfriend, I didn't have that instant affinity with, but after having broken up, I can see that it was there. And it was another case of someone who couldn't stay in the country because of her visa.

I have honestly had the most awful luck when it comes to women and their ultimate unavailability.

[Independent voter]

It's best when you can have a deep spiritual bond and still hold an election.

[Vizardlorde]

There is no such thing as spirit/soul.

[Celista]

It's best when you can have a deep spiritual bond and still hold an election.

What are YOU thinking about when you're at the polling booth?

I believe people can have instant and chemical level affinities or dissonances with other people which can be incredibly powerful. I've known people who loved me the moment they saw me, and I felt the same. I've also known people who I just rubbed the wrong way and they couldn't explain why, even to themselves. I rarely run into someone with whom our positive affinity is so great that it feels like the natural order of the world is standing on its head. It's happened to me a few times in my life, but it was always in a situation where the other person was unavailable, lived in a different city, or was already married, or was 19 years older than me (god, she was amazing), or something along those lines. And it isn't just that I'm attracted to unavailable women, because usually the feeling of affinity began before I knew about the issues.

My last girlfriend, I didn't have that instant affinity with, but after having broken up, I can see that it was there. And it was another case of someone who couldn't stay in the country because of her visa.

I have honestly had the most awful luck when it comes to women and their ultimate unavailability.

With one ex in particular, the moment we met it felt like we had known each other forever. It wasn't the partner I was referring to in my earlier post, but he had a meaningful impact on my life in a lot of ways.

I understand in regards to unavailability. I honestly think that some people are attracted to the unavailability, but the fact of the matter is that life just oftentimes makes a lot of us unavailable due to one reason or another.

[Deleted]

As you may know there are different types of spiritual connections that can exist between two people,sometimes there can be multiple connections between two people as well really making the connection strong and unique.

The ways to tell you have a spiritual connection at all to someone are these signs as follows.

1) You can not describe the main reason as to why you are so attracted to the person in question.

2) Random thoughts of the person,even when they was not apart of your mindset at all initially.

3) Sudden change of mood. Example: One minute being carefree and happy to feeling sad. (This is because you can feel the mood of the other person you are connected too.

4) Feeling familiar with the person like you have known them for a long time when you don't know them very well.

5) Feeling a Indescribable feeling when you are both together in person,not knowing if it is good or bad.

Sounds more like autism to me.
With a side of insecurity.

[Reeve]

What are YOU thinking about when you're at the polling booth?

Holding an erection...?

[Khadgar]

Yes, I have! This stuff is very woo-woo, but I have experienced this sort of connection.

With one person I dated, I could tell when they were thinking about me and I could also tell when they were feeling particularly sad, happy, angry etc when I was not there.

Hasn't happened prior or since and I don't expect people to believe me so shrug.

I think we'll have a scientific explanation for such phenomena one day.

I believe you , I don't expect people to believe me either unless they've experience this kind of stuff themselves.

besides what I mentioned in the OP, there were a lot physical out of the ordinary things that happened when we were roommates this Jan-March

I recently read online that one of the side effects of meeting your Twin Flame / Twin Soul is activating your Spiritual Alertness

shortly after she moved in to my place I had what I would describe as a true supernatural / spiritual experience for the first time and only time in my life.

one night when I was all by myself my computer speakers stopped working out of no where for no reason, I examined them and no matter what I did they wouldn't work again. It's not like there was a problem with my power either, my computer and other electronics still worked.

well a little while after that I began to get goosebumps and felt a sense of being completely peace, this feeling of being completely at peace I've never experience before in my life, also started to become extremely emotionally with tears in my eyes, I'm not a very emotional guy either to begin with. I also felt I could sense something around me that I can't really describe. I was also having difficultly sleeping around this time and when I laid down I was immediately able to drift off. and surely enough my computer speakers were functional again.

on top of that there were a couple days where i saw a bunch of tiny specks of bright light, something i've experienced before but extremely rarely.

during this time i also experienced sleep paralysis (where you're in a dream but stuck and can't) for the first and only / time.
i was able to wake myself from it but my body was in the exact same position as the dream.

my roommate Samantha has experienced sleep paralysis before but while she were here it started happening to her a lot more frequently,
she told me she wanted to be use it to have lucid dreams

(The key to lucid dreaming is realizing you're dreaming. Sleep paralysis dreams may help with that because you're in a half-awake half-asleep state)

she experienced several subtle spiritual / supernatural kind of stuff things while we were roommates, i don't remember them all in detail, but one night i remember she didn't want to go to the other side of my house because she sense something that disturbed her. i need to ask her when i see her again about all of it.

She's had a of similar things happen throughout her life beginning at young age that involved stuff like having outer body experiences in her dreams to sensing or seeing light or dark energies. like when i saw the bunch of tiny bright specks that i mentioned earlier.

I'm pretty sure now she is naturally gifted when it comes to one of the same abilities Physic Mediums have called Clairvoyance.

"Clairvoyant mediums can see spirits, auras, objects and places that are not perceptible to others. People who have passed away may appear to them in visions, or they may be able to vividly sense a place to which they have never been. Psychic mediums see these visions with their third eye, located between the two physical eyes. Everyone has a third eye, but the average person's is closed or too weak to use."

but yeah what I'm getting at is what I've experienced further describes what takes place in a Twin Flames relationship.

"In the twin flame/ray union there is usually a spiritual twin and a matrix twin. The spiritual twin will usually be the consciousness of the union and will have the duty of awakening the other twin to their divinity and spiritual power. This means the spiritual twin will most likely be more psychic and will generally feel uncomfortable in society for the most part. Meanwhile, the matrix twin will not know about their divinity while living their everyday like in society. The matrix twin will feel and act likes the average person, although they may have an innate pull to spiritual information without understanding why. In general, the matrix twin will generally have their own psychic abilities, but the real powers of their abilities are usually tucked away in their DNA awaiting to be unlocked by the spiritual twin."

also she would tell me how her birthday (10:23) would always appear IRL like when she would check the time randomly or the cost of buying something ending up being 10:23

I read this is also something happens when you meet on Twin Flame.

In the twin flame/ray union there is usually a spiritual twin and a matrix twin. The spiritual twin will usually be the consciousness of the union and will have the duty of awakening the other twin to their divinity and spiritual power. This means the spiritual twin will most likely be more psychic and will generally feel uncomfortable in society for the most part. Meanwhile, the matrix twin will not know about their divinity while living their everyday like in society. The matrix twin will feel and act likes the average person, although they may have an innate pull to spiritual information without understanding why. In general, the matrix twin will generally have their own psychic abilities, but the real powers of their abilities are usually tucked away in their DNA awaiting to be unlocked by the spiritual twin.

it made me think of my own birthday which is 4/29, I recently turned 29 this April 29th, I experienced positive life changing stuff in the last few months

Also when she left for boot camp in April I had Youtube on autoplay and after I sent my last message goodbye to her on facebook this song "See You Again" by Carrie Underwood, which I've never heard before.

There's other things too but I have to head out for now.

[Tijuana]

Does sex count as a spiritual bond?